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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.1
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Painting, watercolour, North East View of the City of Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Summertime; panoramic view of the city of Carlisle seen from an elevated perspective across the River Eden; to left of composition, in the foreground, a family stands looking across the river. At the water's edge a mounted horseman pauses beside three cattle standing on the riverbank. Eden Bridge lies to right of composition and distant hills rise beyond.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791
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Drawn by Rob't Carlyle
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NORTH EAST VIEW of the CITY of CARLISLE.
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